Presser, Stanley

About

Stanley Presser is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on the interface between social psychology and survey measurement, with particular attention to questionnaire design and testing, measurement error, survey nonresponse, and ethical issues related to the use of human subjects. He has authored books including Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys (with Howard Schuman), Survey Questions (with Jean Converse), and served as chief editor for Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires. In addition to his teaching responsibilities in the Sociology Department, Presser teaches in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology, which he founded in 1992 in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Michigan and Westat, Inc. He has served as editor of Public Opinion Quarterly, was president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, and is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Presser was also the director of the Maryland Survey Research Center from 1989 to 2000. His work includes reflections on the role of doubt in research, as detailed in his 2022 chapter in the Annual Review of Sociology.

Research topics

• Chemical engineering
• Chemistry
• Materials science
• Physical chemistry
• Inorganic chemistry
• Metallurgy

Selected publications

• The time to achieve peak output with special reference to aircraft production

  CERES (Cranfield University) · 1949-07-01 · 18 citations

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  During the war, the rate of production which could be expected from an organisation setting out to manufacture a new type of aircraft was of great interest from the planning point of view. It was found that a time of the order of twelve to eighteen months elapsed between the delivery of the first production type and the achievement of the peak rate of production for which the factory was planned. This report analyses how this growth takes place and used the theoretical growth curve, known as the…

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• Defect chemistry and oxygen non-stoichiometry in SrFe0.2Co0.4Mo0.4O3-δ ceramic oxide for solid oxide fuel cells

  Ionics · 2020 · 6 citations

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• Flexural strength and flaw distributions of SrFe _0.2 Co _0.4 Mo _0.4 O _3−δ ceramic‐supports for SOFCs at operating conditions

  Journal of the American Ceramic Society · 2019-07-10 · 5 citations

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  Abstract Solid‐oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) have the potential to increase electricity generation efficiency, but traditional SOFCs supported by nickel cermets suffer from reliability challenges due to weaker mechanical strength caused by cracking after redox cycling. To solve this problem, a new ceramic anode material, SrFe 0.2 Co 0.4 Mo 0.4 O 3−δ (SFCM) combined with Ce 0.9 Gd 0.1 O 2 (GDC), was evaluated for conductivity and mechanical strength at SOFC operating conditions and after redox cycling…

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• High temperature mechanical behavior of porous ceria and ceria‐based solid‐oxide fuel cells

  Journal of the American Ceramic Society · 2019-02-21 · 4 citations

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  Abstract Multiple environment mechanical testing of solid‐oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and SOFC materials is critical to ensure appropriate compressive sealing in stack designs. Establishing the effects of temperature, environment, and porosity on the flexural strength of ceria‐based SOFCs is a significant step toward practical deployment of the technology. This article presents research into these properties by use of a temperature and atmosphere controlled 3‐point bend fixture capable of reaching…

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• Optimizing the Thickness of Esb-GDC Bilayer Electrolytes for Efficient Low Temperature Operating SOFCs

  ECS Meeting Abstracts · 2017-09-01 · 1 citations

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  Bilayer electrolytes with high oxide ion conductive materials such as Er 2 O 3 -stabilized Bi 2 O 3 (ESB) and Gd-doped CeO 2- δ (GDC) were developed to lower the operating temperature of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) without compromising their efficiency[1]. In a bilayer electrolyte design, optimizing the thickness of ESB to GDC ( r ESB/GDC ) and the total electrolyte thickness ( h ) can help to maximize the SOFC performance. However, such optimization of electrolyte thicknesses requires elabor…

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Frequent coauthors

• Eric D. Wachsman

  7 shared

• Thomas H Hays

  University of Maryland, College Park

  5 shared

• Yi‐Lin Huang

  Guangxi University

  2 shared

• Hooman Yaghoobnejad Asl

  The University of Texas at Austin

  2 shared

• Amitava Choudhury

  Missouri University of Science and Technology

  2 shared

• K. Ghosh

  Missouri State University

  2 shared

• A. Mohammed Hussain

  2 shared

• Ian Robinson

  London Centre for Nanotechnology

  2 shared

Awards & honors

• Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association
• Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advanceme…

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